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Leave big tech behind! How to replace Amazon, Google, X, Meta, Apple – and more

A handful of companies monopolise the web, with unprecedented access to our data. But there are many more ethical – and often distinctively European – alternatives

The Guardian - UK

Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow

The Guardian - UK

AI soulmate and AI fridge take gold in annual ’Worst in Show’ award at CES gadget show

An array of new features for Amazon's Ring doorbell camera system won the ‘Worst in Show’ for privacy

The Independent UK

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The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing

When writer Cory Doctorow introduced the term enshittification in 2023, he captured a pattern many users had already noticed in their personal lives.

The Conversation

How the internet became enshittified – and how we might be able to deshittify it

Remember when Twitter used to be good? I reckon it peaked somewhere around the first COVID lockdowns.

The Conversation

Why the economy has that ‘weird feeling of something you like getting worse’: One of America’s top legal theorists on ‘the age of extraction’

“My understanding of America is that it’s the place where things are supposed to get better,” Columbia Law School’s Tim Wu told Fortune.

Fortune

Is the internet getting worse — and what can we do about it?

Big Tech is giving us all a raw deal, a heavy hitting new book claims. Will Rogers-Coltman meets its author

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Cat soap operas and babies trapped in space: the ‘AI slop’ taking over YouTube

Nearly one in 10 of the fastest growing channels globally consist of mass-produced, surreal AI-generated videos

The Guardian - UK

Garmin Connect+ backlash – your emails, comments and opinions on Garmin's new premium subscription service

Garmin has its users talking, but we want to know what you think

TechRadar

Cory Doctorow’s prescient novella about health insurance and murder: ‘They’re going to be afraid’

The parallels between the science fiction writer’s five-year-old story and present-day events are startling

The Guardian - US

‘What many of us feel’: why ‘enshittification’ is Macquarie Dictionary’s word of the year

The committee’s honourable mentions went to ‘right to disconnect’ and ‘rawdogging’

The Guardian - AU

On a 17-hour train journey I glimpsed our future – and it was ugly

The climate crisis will cause dramatic, life-threatening events, but also a general, broad-brush worsening of everything

The Guardian - UK

Writers and Academics Applaud Brazil's Censorship in Open Letter

The worldwide erosion of support for free speech continues.

Reason

'Enshittification' is coming for us all –even cameras – and this is where it starts...

A new time cap on what used to be a free feature? Cheap smart home cameras are starting to look like a scam!

Digital Camera World

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The Guardian - UK

‘Google says I’m a dead physicist’: is the world’s biggest search engine broken?

For decades now, anyone who’s wanted to know everything about anything has asked Google. But is the platform losing its edge – and can we still trust it to tell us the truth?

The Walrus

The Scourge of Self-Checkout

The technology promised to make shopping easier. It has done the opposite

WEKU

How the porn bots took over Twitter

Twitter has long had a bot problem, but since moderation on the platform was gutted and paid users were given "prioritization" in replies, the landscape has changed.

Fortune

How did Netflix 'win the streaming wars' while being criticized for becoming 'unwatchable?' It could all be explained by the concept of 'platform decay'

Netflix has been simultaneously crowned the winner of the streaming wars and a target of criticism for having mediocre content.

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WEKU

From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'

If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. In fact, there has been a whole lot of action in the last 12 months.

Chicago Sun-Times

Earliest Mickey Mouse character to enter public domain

Current artists and creators will be able to make use of Mickey, but with major limits. It is only the more mischievous, rat-like, non-speaking boat captain in “Steamboat Willie” that has become public.

The Guardian - UK

The best recent science fiction, fantasy and horror – reviews roundup

The Reformatory by Tananarive Due; The Lost Cause by Cory Doctorow; Him by Geoff Ryman; Audition by Pip Adam

The Independent UK

Mickey Mouse will soon belong to you and me — with some caveats

Mickey Mouse is about to belong to you and me

The National (Scotland)

Pat Kane: Matheson shows how technology should be enhancing not frazzling

THERE’S a human, all-too-human element to the Michael Matheson Apple iPad scandal...

The Guardian - UK

Exhausted Amazon staff fight back against retail giant at global UK summit

Meeting in Manchester is part of worldwide action – including Black Friday protests – over tax, market abuse and workers’ rights

The Independent UK

Book Review: Novelist and blogger Cory Doctorow pens a manual for destroying Big Tech

“There is no fixing Big Tech,” Cory Doctorow, a novelist and public-interest technologist who gained online fame with the blog “Boing Boing,” writes in his new book “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means of Computation,” a manifesto for people who want to destroy it."

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